Over the last decades, the Galapagos Islands
have faced a considerable rise in human activities (tourism, population growth
and migration, exploitation of natural resources like fishing and agriculture)
which has resulted in increased pressure on both, the marine and terrestrial ecological
system of the islands. In order to develop a GIS-based information-management system
that allows controlling of human interaction with the islands’ environment and
adjusting human activities to its limited capacities, a group an international
group of GIS-experts under the lead of ZGIS was invited by local authorities
and the UNIGIS-partner in Ecuador USFQ to participate in a 7-day workshop at
the GAIAS extension of USFQ
(Universidad San Francisco de Quito) at San Cristobal Island in February, 2014,
that addressed this topic in tight cooperation with local communities and
citizen initiatives. For further information about this ongoing initiative
please see http://geogalapagos.blogspot.com.
